Gerhard von Horn

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Gerhard von Horn (* around 1270 ; † 1330 ) was a Dutch-German nobleman from the von Horn family .

Gerhard was the son of Wilhelm II von Horn († 1300) and Agnes' von Loon - Chiny (1240–1292). He became a knight in 1300 and after the death of his older brother Wilhelm III. 1301 Lord of Horn and Weert and the glory of the land of Altena ( province of Noord-Brabant ) and Kortessem . In 1311 he was also lord of Perwez and in 1315 lord of Herlaar .

He had two wives:

  • ∞ I. Johanna von Löwen († 1315), daughter of Heinrich I, lord of Gaesbeek ;
  • ∞ II. Irmgard von Kleve († after 1352), daughter of Dietrich VI. , Count of Kleve . With her he had the son Dietrich von Horn († after 1378).

On October 31, 1314, Count Dietrich von Kleve and his wife Margarethe pledged the town, castle and customs of Huissen as well as town, castle and lordship of Kranenburg to Gerhard and appointed him rector and governor of the county of Kleve for four years . They needed the loan in the fight for inheritance claims against the Archbishop of Cologne. In 1316 the previous alliance was consolidated: Gerhard took Irmgard, a sister of Count Dietrich, as his wife and received the Lordship of Kranenburg as a dowry.

In 1318 Gerhard was the host of a group of nobles who broke up the conflict between Count Wilhelm III of Holland and Duke Johann III. of Brabant had to arbitrate. It was about the land of Heusden . At this meeting Dietrich von Kleve declared that he had received this land as a fief from the Duke. In 1321 Gerhard sold the glory Ost-Barendrecht to Jan Gilles Oem.

Gerhard was buried in 1330 in the Carmelite Church in Brussels (the monastery and building no longer exist), where the first wife Johanna lay. His eldest son Wilhelm IV from his marriage to Johanna inherited the dominions Horn and Altena , while Kranenburg and Perwez fell to Dietrich von Horn from his marriage to Irmgard von Kleve. Unsuccessfully, he fought against a relapse of his Kranenburg possessions to the new Clever Count Adolf I / III. , which took place in 1370 for compensation of 30,000 gold shields .

literature

  • Manuel Hagemann: The rule of Kranenburg in the 14th century (1314–1370) , in: Rheinische Geschichte - scientific blogging, February 24, 2016, online

Web links

Single receipts

  1. ↑ Theodor Joseph Lacomblet, in: Document book for the history of the Lower Rhine or the Archbishopric of Cöln , Certificate 706, 1853, Part 3, 1301–1400, p. [613] 601
personal data
SURNAME Gerhard von Horn
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Gerard I. van Horne
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Herr von Weert, Perwez and Altena
DATE OF BIRTH around 1270
DATE OF DEATH 1330